UK Property Market Report for the week ending Sunday, 2nd June 2024
Listings & Sales down because of usual Bank Holiday / Half Term dip
In this week’s UK Property Market Stats Show on YouTube, with James Forrester, the headlines are as follows ..
· House prices are 5.1% higher than Dec 2023
· Listings - 21% lower than last week (as predicted) at 31k UK listings. YTD 9.6% higher than 2023 and 8% higher YTD than 2017/18/19
· Total Gross Sales - 23,347 (21,417 same week in 2023). YTD Gross sales are 10.1% higher than 2023 YTD levels and 7.3% higher than 2017/18/19 levels.
· Net Sales - 17,927, a dip from last week because of the Bank Holiday. Average for 20/21/22/23 was 16,040, so not bad at all.
· Sale fall-throughs remains steady at just over 1 in 5 sales.
🔗 YouTube Link to The Show - https://youtu.be/CsLhMVhmzuo
Chris’s In-Depth Analysis (Week 22) :
* New Properties to Market: The UK saw 31,010 new listings. This year's YTD listings stand at 776,724, 12.8% higher than the historical 8 year YTD average of 688,807, 8% higher than YTD 2017/18/19 and 9.6% higher YTD 2023.
* Average Listing Price: £446,604.
* Average Asking Price of this week’s Listings vs Average Asking Price of the Properties that Sale Agreed this week: 20.8%. The long-term average is between 16% and 17%. Over valuing in the whole of the UK, higher valuing properties for sale (downsizing) and a lower propensity of London & SE properties to sell causing this.
* Price Reductions: Last week, 18,791 properties saw price reductions, a significant number compared to the 8-year Week 18 average of 13,510. This means 1 in 7.89 properties each month are being reduced (Long term average 1 in 9.9 per month)
* Average Asking Price for Reduced Properties: £407,521
* Gross Sales: 23,347 properties were sold stc last week
* Accumulative Gross Sales YTD: The total stands at 535,183, exceeding the average of 499,001 from 17/18/19 and 486,034 in the same week 22 in 2023.
* Average Asking Price of Sold STC Properties: Still staying in the mid £360/370k’s range at £369,728.
* Sale Fall Throughs: Significant drop in fall thrus at 5,420 (yet that is because of the Bank Holiday). For comparison, 5,298 YTD ’24 average weekly figure (& 7,590 weekly sale fall thrus in two months after Truss Budget in Q4 2022)
* Sale Fall Through Rate: Slight increase to figures seen in the last few months, to 23.2% for the week (Comparison - 21.76% for the last 3 months, whilst the long term 8 years average is 24.8% & it was 40%+ in Q4 2022)
* Net Sales - at 17,927. YTD ’24 average 19,208.
* Accumulative Net Sales YTD: The total stands at 418,624, 4.9% higher the 17/18/19 YTD Net sales average (399,243) and 11.3% higher than the YTD figure for 2023 for Net Sales (2023 YTD : 376,161).
* House Prices for the week achieved £347/sq.ft. Almost identical to £348/sq.ft in May ’24 (April ’24 - £344/sq.ft, March ’24 & Feb ’24 both at £339/sq.ft & Jan ’24 to £331/sq.ft). House prices are 5.1% higher than Dec 2023
This week’s local focus is on Islington (N1)
Christopher
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